Overview
- Combines modernism/the avant-gardes and occultism.
- Offers a broad spectrum of media including literature, visual arts, and film.
- Includes a range of languages and historical periods.
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities (PSNRAS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated by the occult movements of their day. This volume explores how Occultism came to shape modernist art, literature, and film. Individual chapters examine the presence and role of Occultism in the work of such modernist luminaries as Rainer Maria Rilke, August Strindberg, W.B. Yeats, Joséphin Péladan and the artist Jan Švankmaier, as well as in avant-garde film, post-war Greek Surrealism, and Scandinavian Retrogardism. Combining the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field of Esotericism Studies with those of Literary Studies, Art History, and Cinema Studies, this volume provides in-depth and nuanced perspectives upon the relationship between Occultism and Modernism in the Western arts from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Reviews
“Too long spurned as a noxious miasma in danger of polluting studies of Modernism, the occult is illuminated in this transdisciplinary book as having infected Modernists as disparate as Hilma af Klint and Hans Richter with its esoteric knowledges, extrasensory practices and alternative concepts. Exploring August Strindberg’s occultist paintings and photographs, Håkan Sandell’s retrogardism, Jan Švankmajer’s Drawer Fetishes, British fairy paintings and Terre de Diamont of Marie Wilson and Nanos Valaoritis, it navigates a subterranean journey thatprofoundly fathoms the unconscious of Modernism.” (Fae Brauer, University of East London Centre for Cultural Studies Research, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tessel M. Bauduin is Postdoctoral Research Associate in Art History at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Henrik Johnsson is Associate Professor of Scandinavian literature at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema
Editors: Tessel M. Bauduin, Henrik Johnsson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76499-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76498-6Published: 28 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09504-8Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76499-3Published: 15 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-2657
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2665
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 275
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Religion, Fine Arts, Secularism